Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780300075328 (0300075324)
Publish date: March 11th 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
I've only read about half the book, so that's what I'm commenting on.The basic premise, as far as I understood it, is this: modernism (as in the styles and trends that characterized the modern era, including modern art) was an attempt to retain something sacred or mythic in a world that was becoming...